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Eighth-generation distiller Jacob Call gets his whiskey bona fides honestly — his family’s been doing it since his ancestor, Samuel Call, began distilling in what is now Bourbon County in 1791. “He had two stills and a dozen fermenters,” Jacob Call said of Samuel. “It definitely wasn’t a hobby with all that equipment.” The blood in the whiskey runs deep for Call, who spent time as a child growing up in Nelson County, and still has some family members here.